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Team comes back from 19 points down to beat Fresno State
The University of Idaho men’s basketball team dug themselves out of a 19 point ditch to pick up an overtime win against Fresno State Thursday night (79-74).
Idaho, coming off of a four-game losing streak, advances to (6-17, 3-9).
Jordan Brooks not only led the team to overtime, scoring the final points in regulation play, but pulled them through it, scoring eight of the team’s 16 overtime points.
“I ain’t got anything to talk about, man,” Brooks said. “We just needed buckets and I knew I could score.”
Brooks also led Idaho in total offense with 25 points and 16 rebounds.
Idaho was off to a slow start in the first half, developing a 10 point deficit in just over 12 minutes of play.
Fresno State’s lead swelled to as much as 19 points before Idaho closed the gap to 39-29 at halftime.
The second half remained much the same until there were just over four minutes left in the game when Idaho employed an 11-0 run to tie the game at 63-63 with 59.2 seconds left to play.
Neither team could manage a basket in the remaining seconds, so the game advanced to overtime.
Adding some flair to Idaho’s first half was a lob-dunk from Darin Nagel to Clyde Johnson who threw it down the court from behind his head.
“It felt so good, man, felt like a whole ’nother locker room in there,” Brooks said.
Idaho will return to Cowan Spectrum to take on Nevada (16-8, 8-3) in its second-to-last home game of the season at 7:05 p.m. on Saturday.
The game is also Idaho’s Think Pink event to raise cancer awareness. Fans wearing pink to the game will be admitted for one dollar. It is the second of the Think Pink games for the Vandal basketball teams.
During halftime, a cancer survivor will share his or her story in an effort to educate people on cancer prevention.
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